"Mercedes why are we spending our lunch in the baseball field?" Finn asked as he was throwing me balls while I tried hitting them. Kurt was sitting near the benches, eating his lunch.
"Mercedes, this is awesome! You are finally going to meet him!" Kurt asked he stood up from the bench and started walking towards Finn, as he kept throwing balls at me.
I had a bad feeling about this; the guy was something out of a fairytale. And wanting to meet me, I was going to give him a big disappointment; I mean I'm no cheerleader. I'm a plus size girl, who's independent, but somehow deep inside wanted love.
"I don't know, this guys seems too good to be true." I replied to Kurt as he placed his hands on his hips. Finn kept throwing balls at me and I continued to miss hitting them.
"Come on, you've talked to him for 4 weeks straight on Quinn's Celibacy mingle thing, you talk to him all the time; you know him!" I groaned as what he said, as I hit one of the balls Finn had thrown at me, but Kurt had to duck so it wouldn't hit him.
"Sorry, I get what you're saying Kurt, but he doesn't know me. What if I meet him and I'm not what he expects. Maybe this whole relationship is better for cyberspace." Finn threw me a ball and hitting it, it went towards Finn's foot and he had to jump so it wouldn't hit him.
"I'm with Kurt on this one Mercedes, it's already a win-win because we are going to be the entertainment at the Homecoming Dance, but you have to meet him. This Thor guy isn't going to be in one place for long." Sighing in defeat because Finn had a point, I felt my phone vibrate in my pants.
"Hello Sue." I looked to see Finn and Kurt making faces since they hated Sue, making me giggle I tried not be so loud that Sue could hear me.
"Okay Sue, I'll be on my way. Yes, I know where they sell the ipecac. Okay, goodbye." I groaned annoyed and I grabbed the baseball bat and wanted to hit one more ball.
"Finn one more, then I have to go the grocery store before 6th period." Finn nodded in disagreement before throwing me the ball.
"Why do you act like her slave Mercy?" I laughed softly and gripped the bat tighter, getting ready to hit the ball.
"Simple, no Sue, no money for NYADA!" Finn open his eyes wide as Kurt laughed softly.
"That sucks." Rolling my eyes I asked him to throw me one last ball. My eyes stayed planted on the ball as it approached me, then for some odd and apparent reason I saw Sue's face shaped on the ball. Grinning evilly, I hit with all might and it went over Finn's tall body, we stayed watching it as it landed on the other side of the field near the football field.
"And it's out of here!" I laughed at Finn's remark then giggled when he ran towards me tickling me.
"So, where are we going to get your dress?" Kurt hugged me as we left the baseball field, them towards the school and me towards my car as I headed to the grocery store.
As I got home to deliver Sue's ipecac, I found her naked and getting out of the hot tub as I entered her room.
"Oh my god!" I covered my eyes and quickly turned around.
"Oh I didn't noticed you enter." I turned around as I saw she was still naked as her body was facing me. I gasped turning around again and trying to erase the image of Sue's old, saggy and wet body.
"Um, Sue can you put some clothes on?" I heard her chuckle; I didn't want to turn around until she told me I could. My eyes couldn't stand to see her naked again.
"You can turn around now." I slowly moved around and saw she was wrapped in what seemed to be a tracksuit robe.
"I need you to work an overtime shift at Mechanic Shop tonight. We have lots of customers waiting." She was not serious; she knew I was going to be performing at the Homecoming Dance.
"Sue, it's my night off and I have a Glee Club thing, we're performing at the Homecoming dance tonight. I need to go." She scoffed and nodded in disagreement.
"The Glee Club! No! I hate that depriving and useless club. Stop being so selfish and start thinking about others. And others need you to fix engines and mop oily floors."
"But I really need to go to this dance Sue, I have to," Sue started drinking out of her bottle of Master Cleanse.
"Come on Mercedes, you need to earn your college tuition money. You have to fix a lot of cars." Sighing, I bit my lip. I need to find a way to get out of working tonight, of all nights.
"Sue, I'm a straight A student, I work 7 days a week and I'm taking extra AP classes, I never ask you for anything. Please let me go to this dance." I know I never begged before, but this called for drastic measures.
"Mercedes, now that you are older; there's something I always wanted to tell you and I think you are ready to hear it. You are fat honey, its unhealthy. You're not very pretty, it's sad dear. And you're not very bright, you're just cocky." Never had I felt so humiliated, I was holding back the tears. I left her as I heard laughter coming from her room.
Ignoring the insults I was got from my stepmother, focused on getting supplies from the storage room. I was wearing my overalls that were covered in oil stains, my hair was in a ponytail and my face had a smudge of grease on my cheek.
I saw Carole doing inventory, Will and Beiste doing tire work. I had multiple wrench boxes and compartments that I had to open and set in stations, when I saw Quinn and her posse along with Sam and his friends approaching by foot to the Mechanic Shop. I nearly tripped on spilled oil on the floor as I tried to hide from them. That is until Carole thought I'd be perfect to helped them.
"Mercy dear, can you help them?" I groaned in defeat and took a deep breath and started approaching them.
"Well, if it isn't Lima's dump waste, Mercedes." I ignored Quinn's comment and waited for them to tell me what they wanted.
"Are you sure you can handle this? I mean, I don't want you to break a nail sweetheart." Puck winked at me as I placed my hands on my hips.
"Oh please, like she wastes time thinking about how to be a girl." Quinn was started to get on my nerves, I felt my fist tighten as I saw Sam looking at me with concern eyes.
"What can I help you guys with?" Sam was about to speak when Quinn stood in front of him and spoke for him.
"Something is wrong with our car, we need you to fix it before the dance tonight. Sad that you won't be going." Sam turned to look at me giving me sad eyes as I just ignored him. I walked to their car and started working on it; seeing that the problem was; I knew it wasn't to take long.
"Quinn can we talk, in private?" I tried not to eavesdrop to the conversation Sam wanted to have with Quinn, but it was hard since they were so close to me.
"Anything you have to say to me you can say it front of my peeps, Sam." It irritated me how she was so cocky with herself. Like she knew what he was thinking all time and didn't have the decency to have a private conversation with her boyfriend.
"Okay, I want to break up." I tripped on some tools that were on the floor, once I heard those words come out of Sam's mouth. Yes I was eavesdropping, and that news planted a smile on my face for some reason.
"What? Are you in love with someone else?" Quinn was not happy, she was furious; I tried to continue working on their car with a smirk on my face.
"I think so." Wow, this girl must have made a good first impression on him. Seeing Puck and Mike roam around him wanting to know who this mystery girl was.
"I don't know, but I mean Quinn we can still be-" Quinn interrupted him pointing her index finger at him. Geez, the girl had major issues.
"Don't say the word 'friends.' Unfortunately for you, I'm going to overlook this mental breakdown of yours. Just chill out, we're going to get ready for the dance and I'll meet you there; okay?" Quinn saw I was staring at them and huffed in anger leaving with Santana and Brittany. Mike and Puck followed them as I finished working on the car; closing the coffer and wiping my dirty hands with a cloth.
"There you go. Good as new." Sam laughed softly and reached into his pocket and pulled out a twenty-dollar bill.
"No, don't worry about it." I started walking away from when I felt his hand on my arm.
"It's sad that you're not going to go to the dance. We're going to miss you." I smiled back at him and asked with my eyes for my arm back; he gently let go and we stayed staring at each other.
"I have work to do, sorry." He waved goodbye and like that he was gone. Sam's green and beautiful eyes started becoming a problem for me.
"Mercedes I am ready to Par-tay!" I turned to see my best friend with a black suit and a purple shirt, with a grape shaped broach on the side of the suit.
"You look hot babe!" Kurt's face turned into shock and disgust once he saw me all dirty.
"You're not going to the dance like that are you?" I rolled my eyes and began my work of separating wrenches into stations.
"Kurt, I'm not going." Kurt gasped and tried to gently, without staining his suit, take the wrenches away from me.
"Kurt! Honey, you know you can't handle tools, let…Mercedes what are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be getting ready for the dance?" Kurt raised his hands in the air praising over what Carole had said.
"Exactly what I said, she's not going." Carole showed the same expression Kurt had, she was shocked beyond believe.
"What do you mean you're not going? Did Sue make you work on your day off? God, that woman has no limits." Carole grabbed me and pulled me aside, she placed her hands between my cheeks as she spoke.
"Your father didn't leave this world wanting you to be unhappy, it's time for you to find your own delight starting with this dance." Kurt had to butt in and tell her another reason why I needed to go to the dance.
"The cyber dude she has been talking to for 4 weeks straight wants to meet her tonight at the dance." Carole started giggling and let go of my face and grabbed my hands without caring that they were dirty.
"Is he talking about the boy that has been sending you those love notes?" I gently removed my hands from hers and I continue to work.
"Carole, they aren't love notes, they're text messages and emails." They both started laughing; ignoring them I open a box with a blade.
"Mercy, if a boy is taking his time to write down his feelings for you, it's a love note. You have a secret admirer." I couldn't help but giggle at her attempt to make me realize how big of a deal this dance was.
"What are you still doing here?" She was not serious.
"I'm obeying orders Carole." Kurt moved in front before I could walk.
"Mercy, this is your true love." True love? Even though I haven't even talked to for a long time, he did have a reason. Maybe he was, but all of this seemed too good to be true.
"Well, true love is going to have to wait until after my shift. If I go, Sue will kill me, then bring me back to clean up the mess." Carole grabbed my chin and pulled my head to meet her gaze.
"If she's going to hurt, she'll have to go through me." Before I could reply, Will and Beiste came into the conversation. Apparently, they had been listening to the entire conversation.
"Carole is right Mercedes. You're always working; you're always studying. You need to take some time for yourself." Putting the boxes I had opened on the floor, I placed my hands on my hips and started re-thinking everything.
"Why don't you go and 'Bust a Move'" Beiste started dancing place as Will joined her, dancing as well. Kurt and I started laughing. I threw my cloth on the floor.
"You know what? You guys are right, I never do anything for myself, and I deserve to have some fun. I am going to go to that dance. And I'm going to meet my true love and I'm going to dance all night." Whopping and cheers were heard from Will, Beiste, Carole, Kurt and some of the customers. But then reality hit me again.
"I can't go." Carole sighed sadly at me and caressed my arm.
"Why not." Never thought I would ever say this, but I needed Kurt's help with some sort of clothing I haven't worn in years.
"I don't have dress."
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